Accepted an offer today!
VikingWarlord
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One day short of six weeks since I left my previous job, I accepted a new job on the service desk with a pretty awesome company.
Interestingly, it was the job I mentioned in this thread. Mentioned the people I spoke with before, I got a call two days later. Did the interview last Friday. The HR lady called me yesterday to verify a few things, mentioned there was one other candidate being considered, and that a decision would be made by the end of tomorrow.
Got a call from the hiring manager this morning with the verbal offer. The official letter has already been received and returned.
The interview was the longest I've ever done, four separate meetings with a total of six people over three hours. The first one was the service desk manager and a senior tech, then the infrastructure and field service team leads, then the Director of IT, and then HR.
Though it is a technical position and my knowledge was tested, I really credit my success to a combination of being able to personally connect with them and ask plenty of good questions. Doing my research and being able to intelligently discuss the company's business strategy in addition to the day to day job functions definitely helped in this case.
Interestingly, it was the job I mentioned in this thread. Mentioned the people I spoke with before, I got a call two days later. Did the interview last Friday. The HR lady called me yesterday to verify a few things, mentioned there was one other candidate being considered, and that a decision would be made by the end of tomorrow.
Got a call from the hiring manager this morning with the verbal offer. The official letter has already been received and returned.
The interview was the longest I've ever done, four separate meetings with a total of six people over three hours. The first one was the service desk manager and a senior tech, then the infrastructure and field service team leads, then the Director of IT, and then HR.
Though it is a technical position and my knowledge was tested, I really credit my success to a combination of being able to personally connect with them and ask plenty of good questions. Doing my research and being able to intelligently discuss the company's business strategy in addition to the day to day job functions definitely helped in this case.
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RouteMyPacket
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Nice, congrats and get in there and push to always move forward and take advantage of EVERYTHING the business has to offer you within your career goals.Modularity and Design Simplicity:
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middle of the night because of a network problem and had to figure out the
traffic flows in your network while you were half asleep, could you do it? -
Talonize
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Congratulations! Always good to hear about these kinds of things! Gives myself hope -
VikingWarlord
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RouteMyPacket wrote: »Nice, congrats and get in there and push to always move forward and take advantage of EVERYTHING the business has to offer you within your career goals.
Absolutely. That's one of the things that excited me most about the company. It's a little more involved than a typical corporate helpdesk, where everyone has the opportunities to dip into just about everything, from desktop support to server administration to LAN/WAN administration. I'm really looking forward to starting this one. -
Pupil
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Congratulations. Good work. Now get in there and pwn it.2015 Certification Goals: CCNA: Routing & Switching FONT=courier new][SIZE=2][COLOR=#ff0000]X[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT, CCNA: Security FONT=courier new][SIZE=2][FONT=courier new][SIZE=2][COLOR=#ff0000]X[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT, Security+ COLOR=#ff0000]X[/COLOR
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coffeeluvr
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Congratulations!!"Something feels funny, I must be thinking too hard. - Pooh"
